Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir, celebrates son’s circumcision

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The murderer of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who forged the Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians, attended the circumcision of his son yestrday in a high-security jail, on the 12th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination. Yigal Amir, an Orthodox Jew, who shot three bullets into the prime minister’s back as he left a peace rally in 1995, was led in shackles to attend the circumcision of his newborn son, despite the protestations of many Israelis, including Rabin’s son.

The decision to allow Amir to be present at the event has caused outrage and deep division in Israel, with extreme